LIVE: Besigye to be charged with inciting violence, malicious damage
Dr Kizza Besigye, the FDC former president, Ingrid Turinawe and Patrick Oboi Amuriat, will be charged with four counts of incitement of violence, one count of disobedience of statutory duty and one count of malicious damage to police vehicles.
From the charge sheet, murder is not included unless it is amended in the chambers.
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Besigye arrived at court at 7.45 am under heavy police escort.
Dressed in a checkered shirt, a brown jacket and holding a white polythene bag, a smiling Besigye was escorted by counter terrorism police personnel.
Darius Tweyambe, an FDC activist in Rukungiri was arrested outside court for unknown reasons.
On Tuesday evening, Besigye was driven from Naggalama police division to Mbarara.
He spent the night at Mbarara Central Police Station. At 6.30 am today, he was driven at break neck speed, in a heavily guarded police convoy, to Rukungiri, using the Ntungamo-Kabale road.
More details to follow...
